“What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be my love, Be my life Be my happiness, Be my wife Be my sadness, Be my tear Be my sorrow, Be… — John Lee Delan Copy Share Image
“Grief doesn't come in a landslide. It seeps in,while you are sleeping. First you start in dreaming. Then your wake-up time carries… — Jerrie Oughton Copy Share Image
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you.… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“And when I stand in the receiving line like Jackie Kennedy without the pillbox hat, if Jackie were fat and had taken… — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes my sadness and my anger still feel as hard as ice; that's how I saw them for a long time, in… — Katy Regnery Copy Share Image
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
All my dreams have Withered and died. For this is the truth I can no longer hide. I was left with nothing… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Someday I will pick up shells of every colour And probably even rob the sea of its wonder Yet I won't find… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Night goes away, a black bull-- body heavy with mourning and fear and mystery-- it has been bellowing horribly, monstrously, in genuine… — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
“So it is the old meat after all, no matter how old. Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it wont… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“Boy, that was mean, even by my standards," Maysilee says to me. "You can't choose your parents." "You could reject their business,"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I turned to face Audrey, and everything I loved was right there in her eyes, the memories tangible: the schooldays and sleepovers,… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What was I going to do? The choices seemed basic and slim: Die. Exist. Live. I wanted to die, but with two… — Sukey Forbes Copy Share Image
You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.” — Candace Robinson Copy Share Image
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“The feeling of warmth and security, family and friendship. Laughter in grief. The feeling that imagination could overcome every hardship if you… — Jo Cotterill Copy Share Image
“Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If You Are Being Patient In One Moment Of Anger, You Will Escape A Hundred Days Of Sorrow... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Just as a snowflake went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the pumpkin patch is… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
